RE: MY EXPERIENCE WITH WEKU SO FAR
Do you blame the thief or the open vault?
Does having to open the safe make the difference between stealing and not stealing? Everyone hides behind the wording "it's your stake do with it what you want" That is just wordplay to hide dishonesty in my opinion.
Maybe it has to do with having kids I care about and my wanting to teach them to be a good human but I see no difference up-voting yourself for pennies or thousands of dollars. Self-voting to me is no self-respect or community respect. I also don't believe the self-voting for visibility bullshit people use. It is all greed pure and simple. It's not using one's investment, it is abusing one's investment while many hide behind the word community while they self-vote. These are often the same people who call others quitters or not real steemians when they leave and prices are low but at the same time they are getting large self-votes so why would they leave?
I think it is sad when people leave when prices are low but if the dolphins all self-vote themselves 100% and no-one the same way it is honestly them making people leave more than vote sellers.
Steemit will always be first in my heart. This ecosystem has given more to me than I can ever say, and not just the currency, but, the camaraderie and the culture and the people I interact with are more than I ever expected to experience.
Same here and it also reminds me how two-faced people are as they hide behind words while trying to claim differently than they are doing in reality. I am glad we met on Smoke, I think we share some core values and that is awesome.
I am glad we met there too. I also agree with the vault thing, by the way, I was just trying to illustrate.
I have gone back and forth on the self voting thing. I do see your point.
I don't see the harm in voting your own posts, I hope people like their content enough to vote on it. It's when people post 15 shitposts a day or comment and upvote their comments that really sucks. I hate seeing "nice post" with a 30 dollar upvote. It does make self voting look bad as a whole. I wait, usually til the next day, then I vote myself. That gives the rewards mostly to the other voters on my post, not that .01 is much to split haha.
Thanks for the inciteful comment!
The thing is if you upvote your content for a penny it doesn't do much but you set the mind up to see that self-vote as good and/or okay. Once your stake becomes larger you are double dipping with your self-vote. You are making your earned votes and then taking curation rewards out of the pockets of those who vote for you. As you then become author and curator of your own post. It's all opinion but I have more respect for those who sell their vote more than anyone who steals rewards from the users upvoting them to begin with.
I see your point and I think you won me over.
And you are right about visibility, I tried it on Smoke and it does nothing. I am glad everything there is powered up 100% for now. Hopefully, that will cut down on the spam.